Your Favourite Album?

[Liam]

Fuck this "listing 5 or 10 albums you like", this is a thread just to list the ONE album that really is your favourite when you think about it. I watched the repeat of the Channel 4 top 100 albums and though I'd start this. List albums you considered, but seriously...if you had to chose one album, what would it be?

It was hard for me, as I could have gone for Nirvana "Nevermind", David Gray "White Ladder" (yeah, I'm weird like that >_>), Jeff Buckley "Grace" or Deftones "White Pony" but in the end, the only choice for me was:

REM "Automatic For The People"

May seem a weird choice due to my normal leaning towards metal, but I've not listened to an album where every song has just really done it for me other than this. Sure, other albums haven't had a weak song on them (exactly like this album), but I just find every single song on this album as strong as the others. Just a beautiful album, and my favourite.........

......though that my change tomorrow >_>

[tristy]

"The Fragile" by Nine Inch Nails.

It's the first album that popped into my head when I saw this thread. I know all the words to the songs (that have lyrics), fuck, I can even hum to the instrumentals on the album. Yeah, there are some real stinkers on it (The Wretched, Starfuckers, etc), but goddamnit, even if I'm not a big NIN whore anymore, it's a brilliant album. I love it.

[VerbalPuke]

Fuck this "listing 5 or 10 albums you like", this is a thread just to list the ONE album that really is your favourite when you think about it. I watched the repeat of the Channel 4 top 100 albums and though I'd start this. List albums you considered, but seriously...if you had to chose one album, what would it be?

It was hard for me, as I could have gone for Nirvana "Nevermind", David Gray "White Ladder" (yeah, I'm weird like that >_>), Jeff Buckley "Grace" or Deftones "White Pony" but in the end, the only choice for me was:

REM "Automatic For The People"

May seem a weird choice due to my normal leaning towards metal, but I've not listened to an album where every song has just really done it for me other than this. Sure, other albums haven't had a weak song on them (exactly like this album), but I just find every single song on this album as strong as the others. Just a beautiful album, and my favourite.........

......though that my change tomorrow >_>

Pick just "one" album he says. Of course liam found a sneaky way to include his other favorite albums, pick just one album...BUT these could also work as my favorites!

Anyway, my pick is Nomeansno - Wrong. Obviously I have other favorites (which shall remain nameless for the sake of the rules ) but this album seems to be my number one album. I've reviewed the album in the "what did you listen to today?" thread and have discussed it at length in other music threads. No need for me to go into it yet again.

Edited October 16, 2006 by VerbalPuke

[Liam]

Fuck this "listing 5 or 10 albums you like", this is a thread just to list the ONE album that really is your favourite when you think about it. I watched the repeat of the Channel 4 top 100 albums and though I'd start this. List albums you considered, but seriously...if you had to chose one album, what would it be?

It was hard for me, as I could have gone for Nirvana "Nevermind", David Gray "White Ladder" (yeah, I'm weird like that >_>), Jeff Buckley "Grace" or Deftones "White Pony" but in the end, the only choice for me was:

REM "Automatic For The People"

May seem a weird choice due to my normal leaning towards metal, but I've not listened to an album where every song has just really done it for me other than this. Sure, other albums haven't had a weak song on them (exactly like this album), but I just find every single song on this album as strong as the others. Just a beautiful album, and my favourite.........

......though that my change tomorrow >_>

Pick just "one" album he says. Of course liam found a sneaky way to include his other favorite albums, pick just one album...BUT these could also work as my favorites!

Anyway, my pick is Nomeansno - Wrong. Obviously I have other favorites (which shall remain nameless for the sake of the rules ) but this album seems to be my number one album. I've reviewed the album in the what did you listen to today thread and have discussed at length in other music threads. No need for me to go into it yet again.

I said also list albums you may have considered, but go with an overall pick by the end

[lari]

Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side

I'm a huge Savatage fan, so it pains me to choose anything before their albums (especially before Wake of Magellan), but Blind Guardian's Imaginations is an epic heavy metal masterpiece.

[Skummy]

It's a difficult one...lately I've been listening to If I Should Fall From Grace With God by The Pogues pretty much non-stop, more than I can remember listening to any other album I've owned, and I adore so many tracks on there that I absolutely have to take it into consideration. Rain Dogs by Tom Waits is another that I listened to an awful lot, and can still listen through the whole way and thoroughly enjoy, and notice different little nuances each time, and which is somewhat genre-spanning. Warmer Corners by The Lucksmiths is probably, lyrically, my favourite album, and another one I listened to a lot and still adore.

My absolute favourite album, though, I would have to say, would be The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths. It's a narrow victory, and increasing as I listen to The Smiths less and less and other bands more and more, but it's still my favourite. Some fantastic lyrics from Morrissey throughout (especially "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" which remains probably my favourite song), Johnny Marr proving why he's my favourite guitarist, while Rourke and Joyce (especially on the title track) go some way to proving their worth, instead of remaining the neglected members of the band. No real duff track on the whole album, and it spans so many different ideas and themes, while still feeling inherently like The Smiths....pretty much a perfect album.

[Thatz]

In my mind, "Revolver" by the Beatles is the greatest album of all-time.

[ThaMyth]

Honestly,I love too many albums to have a favorite. But going out on a limb, I'm gonna say Kanye West's the College Dropout. It had an atmosphere about it and I couldn't stop listening to it.

[Ananas]

Leonard Cohen - "Songs Of Love And Hate"

Amazing from start to finish.

[VerbalPuke]

Oops, I retract my statement then Liam. My brain malfunctioned in the reading comprehension department.

Well since I listed Nomeansno - Wrong as my favorite, I can now list some other considerations.

Johnny Thunders - L.A.M.F., Big Boys - The Fat Elvis, Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime, and rounding out the group would be No Alternative - Johnny Got His Gun 1978-1982. It's hard to pick one though, some albums are favorites on different days. I guess I can pinpoint Nomeansno as the top dog because of the way it hit me the first time I heard it. Many other albums have really hit me good and hard, leaving a lasting memory on me. Nomeansno seems to have dug deeper into my heart and mind.

[ONO]

I'd have to go for The Bends by Radiohead.

[Iain76er]

Followed closely by DJ Shadow's Endtroducing... & Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins.

Edited October 17, 2006 by Iain76er

[TheCrippler]

I find this a fairly impossible question, as I'm sure I could name several albums that are all equally as good as the last. So, I'll go with the album that had the biggest impact on me, and the biggest repercussion in my musical taste. And that album is.....

"Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence" by Glassjaw

The album that got me back into 'heavy' music, after being totally turned off by the Nu-Metal explosion in the 90's (not that it all sucked, but it got so popular that I could've formed a band with my gran rapping and it would have sold, the quality really suffered). It also lead me to discover other awesome bands, and not to mention Daryl Palumbo is an excellent lyricist.

EDIT: As for other albums I could have chosen:

Several Smiths records

A couple of Bright Eyes records

Weezer - Pinkerton

Cable - Sublingual (which I'm pretty sure NONeof you will have heard of)

and probably many more.

Edited October 17, 2006 by TheCrippler

[The Slickman]

Appetite For Destruction by Guns N Roses

Although I must say recently I got "Who Killed The Zutons" by The Zutons and its an excellent album.

[Benjamin]

I have only one album in my house...

The Celtic Circle, and its the best.

[Guest We Are Robots]

Hmmm... let's go with...

"Discovery" by Daft Punk.

[fourstarfizzle]

Hmmm, one album? Well, theres a few to choose from the spectrum, my considerations would have to be..

'Miss Machine' - Dillienger Escape Plan

Just for it's excellence or technicality and flow in the album.

'Far Beyond Driven' - Pantera

The first metal album to smack me hard in the face and see where my musical tastes where destined to go.

'Born To Run' - Bruce Springsteen

Legendary, without doubt. The first album of his I ever heard, epic beyond all proportions.

'Dear You' - Jawbreaker

One of the greatest punk bands ever! And probably their best album.

'Young Team' - Mogwai

Just one of my favourite albums ever.

'Casanova' - The Divine Comedy

One of the best pop song writers/artists ever in my opinion.

But my favourite has to go to...

Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen

I can listen to it all the way through, time and time again, it's a classic and tells such an awesome story throughout.

Edited October 17, 2006 by fourstarfizzle

[Steeb]

Hmmm, after considering 'Frances The Mute' by The Mars Volta, 'Binaural' and 'Vs.' by Pearl Jam, 'Siamese Dream' by Smashing Pumpkins, 'White Pony' by Deftones, 'The Downward Spiral' by Nine Inch Nails, and 'Lover, The Lord Has Left Us' by The Sound Of Animals Fighting, I was left with two choices.

'Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness' by Smashing Pumpkins

and

'Kid A' by Radiohead.

Both fairly 'depressing' albums, both very beautiful albums, but at the end of the day, I think I'd have to give the nod to 'Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness' by Smashing Pumpkins. As good as 'Kid A' is, it didn't open my eyes to a whole new area of music. It didn't help me through bad times. It doesn't make me pay complete attention to it every time I listen. It doesn't completely mesmerise me with it's magnificence. 'Mellon Collie...' does.

[Number of the Breast]

One? Fuck, this could take me a while...

Right, 4 minutes in, and I think I'm gonna have to go with... nope, still can't.

OK, I got it. This may surprise some of you.

As much as I love Iron Maiden (so, so much), there is one album that ever so slightly stands out ahead of anything else, and that is Dream Theater's "Train of Thought". It's one of those albums that really needs to be just listened to, it's not something I can just have in the background, when I listen to "Train of Thought", everything else is in the background.

[Guest The Bleeding Heart Show of Ringy]

Based purely on listenings, I'd have to say the Unicorns' "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?", which I've pretty much been listening to at least once every few days since 2003.

But I'd have to say The Cure's "Pornography" is my favourite, with The Cure's "Disintegration" and The Smiths' "The Queen is Dead" both very close seconds.